The analysis of a text #1

The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He is an apprentice for the lawyer Mr. Spenlow.
When he and his old nurse Peggotty(Mrs. Betsey) entered his apartment, he found his grand aunt Miss Betsey and her friend Dick be in the sitting room.
She doesn't say for a while the reason why she visited him.

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As I knew she would only speak in her own good time, I sat down near her, and spoke to the birds, and played with the cat, and was as easy as I could be. But I was very far from being really easy, and I should still have been so, even if Mr. Dick, leaning over the great kite behind my aunt, had not taken every secret opportunity of shaking his head darkly at me, and pointing at her.
'Trot,' said my aunt at last, when she had finished her tea, and carefully smoothed down her dress, and wiped her lips
- 'you needn't go, Barkis! - Trot, have you got to be firm and self-reliant?'
'I hope so, aunt.'
'What do you think?' inquired Miss Betsey.
'I think so, aunt.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know what "What do you think?" means here.
Thank you in advance for your help.